Novel Coronavirus In Nevada: Tuesday, January 12, 2021
5:39 p.m. | January 12, 2021
Nevada Surpasses 250,000 COVID-19 Cases
Nevada hit a milestone in the pandemic. The state surpassed a quarter of a million COVID-19 cases since March. The state’s death toll is more than 3,500.
Statewide, there have been an average of over 1,800 new daily cases over the last two weeks. There are over 1,800 people hospitalized with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 and 80% of staffed hospital beds are occupied, according to the Nevada Hospital Association.
And deaths continue to climb. In Washoe, 10% of the 544 COVID-19-related deaths in the county have been reported this month.
For more information, you can find Nevada’s COVID-19 dashboard here, and Washoe County’s here.
Wednesday COVID-19 updates: ‘Appreciable declines’ in local hospitalizations
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While COVID-19 cases continue to spike in Southern Nevada in the New Year, Northern Nevada has seen a sustained drop in hospitalizations, the Nevada Hospital Association said in a statement Wednesday morning.
“Nevada hospitalizations remain plateaued at near peak levels with appreciable declines only in the northern part of the state,” the statement read. Hospitalizations in Reno, Sparks and Carson City peaked 402 patients on Dec. 15, but have since dropped to 239 patients with known and suspected cases.
State breaks record for single-day COVID deaths
Nevada broke a record for the number of COVID-19 related deaths Thursday with 62 deaths reported over the previous day.
The previous record was 60 deaths, which was reported on Jan. 6. Today, it is with great sorrow that we acknowledge the passing of 62 Nevadans that lost the battle against COVID-19, a record high of reported deaths, said Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak in a tweet. This is yet another somber milestone in our State’s efforts against this pandemic. We have lost more than 3,600 fellow Nevadans.
15 deaths, 168 new cases in Washoe County
Washoe County health officials announced 15 coronavirus-related deaths and 168 newly diagnosed cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday.
Washoe County health officials reported five more COVID-19 deaths and 239 newly identified cases of the virus over the past day, according to a Tuesday afternoon press release.
The deaths were those of four men and one woman, ages ranging from 60s to 90s. In all, 544 Washoe County residents or about one out of every 880 have died of coronavirus-related causes since the pandemic began.
Since the pandemic began, the county has diagnosed 38,652 cases of the coronavirus, a little more than 8% of the county s estimated 478,000 residents.
The county also reported 386 new vaccinations against COVID-19 issued by the Washoe County Health District on Tuesday, bringing the total number of vaccinations by the health district to 8,708. Seventeen other agencies also have received doses of the vaccine; vaccinations by those agencies aren t reflected in the health district s total.
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Washoe County saw fewer cases for the first seven days of January but health officials cautioned that the decrease was a function of testing frequency.
“It is an ‘actual’ decline of cases reported to WCHD due to decreased number of people seeking tests,” the Washoe County Health District said in response to a query by the Reno Gazette-Journal. “This decline does not represent (or) reflect the true disease burden in the community.”